Alejandro Guillier

{{Short description|Chilean journalist and politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{family name hatnote|Guillier|Álvarez|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Alejandro Guillier

|image = Alejandro Guillier (2017) 4x3 cropped image.jpg

|office = Member of the Senate of Chile

| constituency = 2nd Circunscription (Antofagasta Region)

| term_start = 11 March 2014

| term_end = 11 March 2022

| predecessor = José Antonio Gómez

| successor = Dissolution of the circunscription

|birth_name = Alejandro René Eleodoro
Guillier Álvarez

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1953|3|5}}

|birth_place = La Serena, Chile

|death_date =

|death_place =

|party = New Majority {{small|(2013–2018)}}

|otherparty = Social Democrat Radical Party

}}

Alejandro René Eleodoro Guillier Álvarez (born 5 March 1953) is a Chilean sociologist, television and radio journalist, and independent politician. He is a senator of the 2nd District of Antofagasta and was the 2017 presidential candidate of the New Majority.{{cite web|url=http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Alejandro_Ren%C3%A9_Eleodoro_Guillier_%C3%81lvarez|title=Alejandro René Eleodoro Guillier Álvarez|work=bcn.cl|date=11 March 2014|access-date=15 April 2017|archive-date=29 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629083419/http://historiapolitica.bcn.cl/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Alejandro_Ren%C3%A9_Eleodoro_Guillier_%C3%81lvarez|url-status=dead}}

Guillier ran in the New Majority primary for the 2017 election and was the coalition's standard bearer in the 2017 presidential elections to replace term-limited president Michelle Bachelet. Among others, he faced former PPD president Ricardo Lagos before the latter's withdrawal from the contest.

Polling showed him to be competitive against Chile Vamos candidate Sebastián Piñera, although his support slipped in the run up to the election and after a series of splits between the traditional left coalition block.{{Cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-04-20/chile-election-competitive-despite-conservative-gains-poll|title=Chile Election Competitive despite Conservative Gains|last=Slattery|first=Gram|date=20 April 2017|agency=Reuters}}

Gullier is a freemason{{Cite news|url=https://www.eldemocrata.cl/noticias/masoneria-se-moviliza-para-apoyar-candidatura-de-alejandro-guillier-en-la-nueva-mayoria/|title= Masonería se moviliza para apoyar candidatura de Alejandro Guillier en la Nueva MayoríaEl Demócrata|date=18 March 2017|work=El Demócrata|access-date=17 June 2017|language=es|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170514144022/http://www.eldemocrata.cl/noticias/masoneria-se-moviliza-para-apoyar-candidatura-de-alejandro-guillier-en-la-nueva-mayoria/|archive-date=14 May 2017|url-status=dead}} and a member of the Valparaíso Parliamentary Lodge since 2014.{{Cite news|url=http://www.latercera.com/noticia/el-mason-guillier/|title=El masón Guillier |work=La Tercera|access-date=17 June 2017|language=es-ES}}